St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-10

of any marked departure from the general
ideas of last years goods, there are in the
cheviots, the camePs hair goods the vicunas,
mixtures and novelty stutfs, the unmis-
taxable marks of newness. The same
checks, barred, striped, lined and plaided
effects are seen, but with certain variations
that are easily distinguished by the practced
eye, but not so easy to describe There
are new clusterings OF stripes, new zgZag
and corded effects, and in the velvet and
plush striped Stuffs new colorngS and COM
binations of color are observed. On many
serge-woven grounds i'll dark and light
shades of color are seen broad bands of
stripes of flower designs i'll plush and vel
vets, in frise and plain or cut and uncut
pile, producing shadings that are rarely
beautiful and highly artistic. These
are costly novelties, however, and intended
only for parts of wool costumes made of
stuff of the color and weave of the ground
of the novelty fabric. Immense quantities
of China silks will be worn, judging from
the profuson of those seen on the count
ers. They are very attractive when in
color, white, plain black OF figured. Those
that are pure white are pretty enough for
summer bridal dress. Then there are lovely
shades of blue, rose, mauve, heliotrope,
green, yellow, from rich ''Mikado'' to pale
primrose and bright jOnquil shades. besides
lead, serpent of cobra and all those inter-
mediate shades so dear to the aesthetics.
The principal varieties of China silks and
f0ulards come in the same shades as the
plains for the ground, while in groups,
blocks, lines or scattered-all-over designs
are seen the small and medium-SiZed figures
showing the art ideas of the Oriental land
from whence these pretty novelties come.
| Watered, MORE silks, both black and col
ored, will be
MUCH WORN THIS SEASON,
but always combined with some other silk.
| Then there are great many kinds of
watered striped silks in which one tint or
shade is watered, the next striped in satin,
or velvet, or broche, OF chene, OF POmpa-
dour designs, printed on delicate grounds
| Of white, cream or pale shades of color.
Other watered silks have clustered bands of
stripes of various widths running length
wise in satin, of a contrasting color to that
of the ground. Serpent blue for the watered
ground and old gold for the satin stripes is
a much-admired combination, but heliotrope
and gold. brown and primrose yellow,
green and pale pink. and violet of dark
heliotrOpe and pale blue are also seen along
with other even more eccentric cOmbina
|
sometimes two clusters, add not infre-
quently one cluster. cover the entire breadth
of these novelty silks. The water
ings are entirely new, and the
luster, while not bright, is very rich.
and very different to the old style lustrou:
moires. This taste for lusterless silk i:
shown in the productions of some very
handsome brooches from the looms of Lyons
the grounds of which are satin-finished bu
with dull luster, to which the weaver.
have given the name of broche fluer de SOLE
flower of silk brocade.'' They make
peculiarly luxurious house negligee gown.
Just the sort of thing to lie around on thu
sofa and pet ones dog in. The neweS
freak in this line is to wear sleeveless an(
low-necked wrapper at home-a darins
fashion not likely to find general or modes
favor. CLARA BELLE.